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T. B. DAVIS.

SCOOP.

No. 244,797 Patented July 26,1881.

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I INVENTOR ATTORNEY TENS. Photo-mo gnpher, Wasl UNITED. STATES THOMAS B. DAVIS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SCOOP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent-N0. 244,797, dated July 26, 1881.

Application filed February 18, 1881. (No model.)

- 84,803; and it consists in the manner of unitin g the edges of the blank composing the body without solder and securing thereto the handle, as hereinafter fully described, whereby the cost of manufacture is reduced and the whole acquires superior strength and durability.

This invention is illustrated in the accomdanying drawings, in which Figure l represents a side view. Fig. 2 is a plan or top view of the blank forming the body of the article.

Fig. 3 is a rear end view of the body without the handle. Fig. 4 shows the handle in perspective view. Fig. 5 is a cross-section, showing the main joint of the body and the connection of the handle.

Similar. letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The'letterA designates the body of the scoop, constructed of a blank, B, Fig. 2, of sheet metal, in one piece, comprising thesides a a and the bottom I). The bottom part, b, of the blankis semicircular on its rear edge, as at 0, while the side portions, or, a, are straight on their rear edges, these side portions projecting beyond the rear edge of the bottom part in converging planes forming wings I I, and

the inner edges, f f, of these wings corresponding approximately to the outline of the rear edge of the bottom part. The converging wings I I of the side portions are longer, aggregately, than the semicircular at the rear edge, 0, of the bottom part, the excess being equal to the area beyond the dotted lines 0 c, Fig. 2, and they are bent or folded upon themselves on said dotted lines, one inwardly and the other outwardly while they are drawn toward each other, meeting on the said dotted lines, and then folds are made to interlock with each other, thus forming a double lap seam or joint, g, which, when suitably compressed, serves to firmly unite the side portions, 60 a, and retain the body in the desired shape. The inner edges, ff, of the wings I I are united with the rear semicircular edge, 0, of the bottom part also by a lap-joint, h.

The general shape of the body A is similar .to that shown and described in myPatent No.

84,803, before mentioned, and needs no de scription.

The letter O designates the handle of the scoop, constructed with a plate, D, at its inner end, whereby it is secured to the body A opposite to the lap-joint g, as by rivets m.

In the end plate, D, of the handle'is formed a groove, 8, adapted to receive the lap-joint g of the body, and when the plate is secured to the body the lap-joint enters the groove, thus allowing the plate to lie close up to the body, and not only hid in g the joint, but also strengthening the same.

I hereby distinctly disclaim anything shown and described in my Patent No. 84,803, and

What I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A scoop consisting of the body constructed of a single piece of sheet metal, with the double lap-joint g, and the handle constructed with the grooved end plate, D, whereby it is secured to the body opposite the lap-joint, its groove being adapted to receive such joint, as shown and described.

THOMAS B. DAVIS.

Witnesses:

A. G. GEAR, WALTER H. WALDRON. 

